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Sea Level Rise “Under-Estimated”

0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell December 15th, 2006 in climate change impacts, sea-level rise

Current sea level rise projections could be seriously under-estimating the impact of human-induced climate change on the world’s oceans, scientists have suggested. By plotting global mean surface temperatures against sea level rise, the team found that levels could rise by 59% more than current forecasts.

Climate Change Threatens Pacific Islands

5 Comments Published by Andy Rowell October 25th, 2006 in Climate Change, Oil, climate change impacts, sea-level rise

Whilst Britain belatedly introduces a watered-down Climate Bill and other countries tinker and talk about Climate Change, low-lying South Pacific nations such as Kiribati are literally sinking beneath the waves. Kiribati is an archipelago of 33 coral atolls barely 6ft above sea level, and is literally vanishing as sea-temperatures rise.

Sea levels Rising Faster Than Predicted

1 Comment Published by Andy Rowell September 21st, 2006 in Climate Change, climate change impacts, sea-level rise

Professor Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, has warned that sea-level rise is increasing much faster than scientists predicted just five years ago. This is severely threatening many of the world’s coastal and low-lying areas from Bangladesh to Nigeria.
The present prediction of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, from its third assessment […]